Real and virtual sonic spaces

Public presentation / discussion with
Francisco López (composer) and Julio Enrique Simonet (Architect, Musicologist, Parapsicologist)
Fundación Arquitectura COAM: Piamonte, 23 - Madrid
9 Dec 2009 - 19:45h

three-day workshop + live immersive performance
18-20 December 2009
palermo, sicily
organized by antitesi: info@antitesi.org

View workshop details (pdf)

Thursday, October 15

Francisco López (SP / NL)
Urban Shaman Gallery | 203 – 290 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg
Doors: 7:45
Performance: 8:30 - 9:30
$12

Saturday, October 17:

Professional Artist lecture/workshop with Francisco López
Video Pool Media Arts Centre | 300 - 100 Arthur St., 3rd floor, Winnipeg
$15 / $10 Video Pool Members
1 - 5:00 p.m.

send + receive: a festival of sound v.11 and Video Pool Media Arts Centre co-present a very special workshop with world renowned Spanish sound artist Francisco López. López will discuss how his sound practice has been shaped
over the past 30 years by two main areas of influence that divert from common music training: the independent home-music worldwide network (starting in the late 70s) and the influence of 'real world' sonic environments, particularly from nature.

He will also discuss the implications of the stage: an ancient convention used to establish a contemplative experience that has been uncritically adopted by most Western musical practices. In the case of electronic/experimental music, the absence of a stage – and thus its perceptive and symbolic consequences – changes the focus from the performer to the sound itself and transforms the sonic experience from contemplative to immersive.

arnolfini art centre
bristol, uk

talk / presentation: sept. 17th @ the cube
live immersive performance: sept. 18th @ concert hall

live immersive performance
sounds to tabakalera festival
san sebastian, basque country
september 10th - 8:00pm

francisco lópez
live immersive performance

@ Festival Météo, Mulhouse, France
Wed. August 28th - 5:30PM

"Mutated Forest"
Multi-channel sound installation
at Platz der Weltausstellung, Hannover
July 23 - August 16, 2009
Daily at 12:00PM, 3:00PM and 5:00PM

francisco lópez
immersive live performances
july & august 2009

BRISBANE
Institute of Modern Art
26 July @ 7:00pm

CAIRNS
Tank Arts Centre
31 July @ 7:00pm

DARWIN
Darwin University
2 August @ time tbc

Live underwater performance by Francisco López & Stefano Tedesco
@ Clissold Leisure Pool - London
July 22 – 7:30PM

Live multi-channel presentation of the results of the project
“Birmingham Sound Matter”
Directed by Francisco López
Organized by Modulate

With performances by: Francisco López, Helena Gough, Bobby Bird, Nicholas Bullen, Mark Harris, Cormac Faulkner, Martin Clarke, and Annie Mahtani.

Plus launching of the limited edition CD release “Birmingham Sound Matter” on Audiobulb Records.

@ Ikon Gallery – Birmingham
July 8th – 7:30PM

live immersive multi-channel performance
@ Observatori Festival – Valencia
Atarazanas
June 27 – 5:40PM

Evelina Domnitch, Dimitry Gelfand & Francisco López
@ Sónar Festival - Barcelona
live laser + 5.1 immersive sound
Planetarium CosmoCaixa
June 18, 19 and 20 – 8:00PM

Ensemble MAE special event: Fracture

with Ensemble MAE, Francisco López, John Wall and John Oswald
Tuesday 9 June, 20.30 hours, Paradiso, Amsterdam

Three masters of the electronic medium, Francisco López, John Wall and John Oswald will create new work in collaboration with the Ensemble MAE. On Tuesday the 9th of June the ensemble will perform these pieces in Paradiso, Amsterdam.

Additionally, at this premiere of FRACTURE, Francisco López, John Wall and John Oswald will also be performing themselves or will present solo works.

ENSEMBLE MAE: FRACTURE
Paradiso, Tuesday 9 june 2009
start: 20.30 hours
venue open: 20.00 hours
box office: 12,50 incl. day membership

Göteborgs Botaniska Trädgård
Gothenburg Botanical Gardens, Sweden
6.6 - 14.6 2009

with Sound Installations and Performances by:

Francisco López
Jana Winderen
Brandon LaBelle
Chris Watson
Christine Ödlund
Linda Tedsdotter
Henrik Håkansson

Curated by:

Joachim Nordwall
& Henrik Rylander

Exhibition and CD release

Host Artists Group are pleased to announce the audio exhibition and CD release of their 9th project Otherliness.

The project includes work by:

FRANCISCO LOPEZ - CARL VON WEILER- NEIL WEBB - RON WRIGHT - ESTHER JOHNSON - OBERPHONES - MATT BUTT - LESLEY GUY - KATIE DAVIES - ROSE BUTLER - TIM LAMBERT - CHRISTOPHER HALL & ALEXANDER KELLY - MIGUEL SANTOS - DAVID MORIN - HELEN BLEJERMAN - MICHAEL DAY - MICHAEL COUSIN - RICHARD SIDES.

The exhibition will take place at Vane Gallery Newcastle on Saturday 16th of May from 7pm - 11pm. This is part of the city wide event, The Late Shows.
There is an artists talk at the Vane Gallery on Friday 15th of May 8-9pm.

The 18 track CD is available for £5 from info @ hostoffice.org.uk

www.hostoffice.org.uk
www.vane.org.uk
www.thelateshows.org.uk

Description
'Otherliness' will be presented as a looped playback at the Vane Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne as part of The Late Shows on the 16th May 2009.

HAG approached a selection of cross-disciplined makers to create an audio piece of around 3 minutes on the theme of 'Otherliness'. The concept is, by its very nature, open-ended so we anticipated a variety of responses to the brief utilizing a range of processes and techniques including field recordings, composition from samples, experimental and musically driven work. All of the pieces offer a different perspective on this difficult and often intimate subject.

Many of HAG's projects have used alternative spaces and venues to present their projects with a sense of intervention or neutrality. Breaking away from formal exhibiting spaces has opened up new possibilities for creativity and allowed audiences to explore art experiences outside of the conventional gallery space. 'Otherliness' seeks to create a sense of difference while acknowledging sameness. The Other cannot exist without something to be other than. It exists in opposition, often born from the thing it negates. In some sense the white gallery space can be seen as familiar and the work be considered 'otherly' or alien to this environment.
A sense of displacement overcomes the uniformity of the blank space; while distortions of familiar sounds focus us back in on the minutiae of our experience. There may be some comfort or consolation in this detachment, this sense of being out of time, as the work presented clearly demonstrates.

This compilation is dedicated to David Guy (1946-2008) and J.G. Ballard (1930-2009).

live immersive performances:

kitchener, ontario - open ears festival
april 30th 2009 - 10:00pm
more info

montreal, quebec - elektra festival
may 5th 2009 - 8:00pm
more info

toronto, ontario
may 7th 2009 - 8:00pm
more info

live immersive performance
@ Farinera del clot, barcelona
april 22nd 2009 - 10:15pm

live immersive performance
@ haus am dom, frankfurt
april 8th 2009 - 8:00pm

Francisco López
SONIC IMMERSION CHAMBER

Immersive sound installation
April 4th to May 17th 2009
At Matadero Madrid

Opening: Saturday April 4th 2009 - 8:00PM
Installation + live performance + invited artist

francisco lópez
live immersive performance
@ festival de mérida, méxico
centro de convenciones siglo XXI
january 10th - 8:00pm